Now a two-time author, Yousafzai was only 10 years old when she began blogging for the BBC under a pseudonym to discuss life under Taliban rule and promote education for girls worldwide.

Yousafzai became well known internationally after a New York Times documentary about her life was released. And in 2012, Yousafzai was boarding her school bus when a gunman shot at her three times. One bullet hit her in the forehead.

After months in the hospital, Yousafzai recovered and — with an even greater platform — resumed her education advocacy. She even founded the Malala Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to educating girls around the world.

Sandberg’s interview with Yousafzai, live-streamed on FacebookLive.com and LeanIn.org, touched on everything from Yousafzai’s current schooling (she’s now in 11 th grade at a girls’ school in the United Kingdom) to what it will take for the region’s terrorism to abate.

On the atmosphere in Pakistan when more than 400 schools had been blasted by bombs:

“There was fear. There was terror. …Our dreams vanished for a second and we had no hope. …I was thinking, ‘I won’t be able to become a doctor…or an independent woman. I’ll just get married at age 13 or 14 and, after that, have children and grandchildren and that’s it.’”

On why she decided not to let fear sculpt her future:

“There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did. …I’m stronger than terrorism. And I’m stronger than every single thing stopping me from getting an education.”

On squashing the roots of terrorism:

“To change the minds of people and groups of people advocating against girls’ education…we have to ask ourselves: ‘Why do terrorists become terrorists? Why are they picking up guns and weapons and not pens?’…First of all, we have to find these problems. There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion. There should be equality in our society that does not give a person (a reason) to pick up guns.”

On her father as a role model and constant advocate for her education:

“My father inspired me. He says: ‘Don’t ask what I did for my daughter. Ask me what I didn’t do. I did not clip her wings.’ He let me fly.”